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Mancini Duffy and Manhattan’s Tin Building 

Civil + Structural Engineer

By Luke Carothers Located in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge in lower Manhattan’s historic Seaport, the Tin Building by Jean-Georges is a sprawling culinary destination. The Tin Building is a landmarked structure within a landmarked neighborhood. The Tin Building is a landmarked structure within a landmarked neighborhood.

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Refine versus shine: Defining and defending design intent with refined concrete

Construction Specifier

Owners and design teams are not protected by todays inadequate and vague polished concrete specifications. Contractors and design teams will continue to pay out contingencies without understanding what went wrong and how to protect themselves in the future.

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CMA STAR Awards – 2012 Winners Announced

Construction Marketing

Winners of the 2012 CMA STAR Awards and CONSTRUCTION MARKETER OF THE YEAR Awards have been announced. Website Design. Blog Design. Social Profile Design. Product Package Design. POP Materials. Exhibit Design. Advanced Building Products. -. Channel Marketing. -. McGraw-Hill. -. Dimensional Mail.

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Skanska’s Jimmy Mitchell Chairs Lifecycle Building Center

CCR Magazine

Skanska , a founding member and cornerstone supporter of the Lifecycle Building Center of Greater Atlanta (LBC), announces Jimmy Mitchell, its Atlanta-based Sustainability Manager, as Board Chair of the material reuse nonprofit. Mitchells return as LBC’s board chair coincides with the U.S.

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Net zero building design and air leakage

GCP Applied Technologies

Net zero building design and air leakage. Is it possible to create a building with a net energy consumption of zero? A ZNE building may not necessarily be “off the grid,” but over the course of a year, it will generate at least as much energy as it consumes from the commercial power grid. Phillip.fry@gc….

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The Top 200 Environmental Firms for 2012: Analysis | ENR.

ENR Construction

Building Types. Material Trends. Issue: 08/13/2012. The Top 200 Environmental Firms for 2012: Analysis. 08/08/2012. The Top 200 Environmental Firms for 2012: Analysis. 08/08/2012. But where one window closed, a door opened for providers of environmental services on the 2012 list. Environment.

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Just two years after opening, $60 million high school stadium will close for repairs

BD+C

The stadium opened in 2012, but cracks recently began appearing throughout the structure, Business Insider reports. Nelson Forensics inspected the stadium and judged that the support structures were not designed to hold the stadium''s weight. Body Image: read more.